David Gessel

Forbidden Fruit

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

om nom nom

Posted at 15:38:58 GMT-0700

Category: Geopost • Places • Politics • Positive • Reviews

The Cat Farm

Saturday, August 11, 2012

The yard cats in Iraq are starting to look kind of healthy on a diet of human food and scraps. They don’t really have pet food, but there is almost always leftovers that appeal to the furballs. The white one has learned that being friendly to humans = getting first dibs.

Posted at 14:39:38 GMT-0700

Category: Cats • Places

Pouring

Monday, August 6, 2012

Truck 5 of 16
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Arriving to pour the foundation of our data center in Basra. It is too hot during the day to pour cement.

Posted at 13:19:13 GMT-0700

Category: Geopost • Places

my data center in iraq

Monday, August 6, 2012

First pour.
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Posted at 12:20:37 GMT-0700

Category: Events • Places

You Now Have Hemorrhoids

Friday, July 27, 2012

I sign into Facebook and am greeted with the following diagnosis: You how have timeline.

I resisted as long as I could, but sooner or later really bad interface design always seems to poop over everything.

Posted at 11:43:44 GMT-0700

Category: Negative • Politics • Reviews • Technology

Cat Farm

Friday, June 29, 2012

One of the cats we’re raising on the cat farm.

Note: we’re not actually farming cats. They’re street cats that have taken refuge in our garden, and in our hearts.

Posted at 14:43:16 GMT-0700

Category: Cats • Geopost • photo • Places

..Graphics/Tiff & GCC 4.6.4

Friday, June 29, 2012

The latest (as of this writing) GCC port to FreeBSD 9.0 ended up creating some compile problems when I did a portupgrade -ra: /usr/ports/graphics/tiff couldn’t find some libraries:

g++46: error: /usr/local/lib/gcc46/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd9.0/4.6.3/crtbeginS.o: No such file or directory
g++46: error: /usr/local/lib/gcc46/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd9.0/4.6.3/crtendS.o: No such file or directory
*** Error code 1

The problem is that there is no more 4.6.3 directory once you install 4.6.4. I didn’t bother debugging the port problem, though I probably should have and informed the port maintainer and all of those good citizenship steps but instead took a shortcut that solved the problem:

cd /usr/local/lib/gcc46/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd9.0/
ln -s 4.6.4 4.6.3
cd /usr/ports/graphics/tiff
make clean
portupgrade -ra

And all is good.

Posted at 02:54:55 GMT-0700

Category: Code • FreeBSD • Technology

Windows Sucks

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

While I have run into development cases where windows was effectively required, any developer that builds from scratch on such a crappy foundation saddens me.

Make the world a more secure and reliable place: open source software on open source platforms just works better.

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